By ARIEL HERNANDEZ Last week’s Democratic primary election left the borough with both excitement and in shock, as two former members of the state Senate’s Independent Democratic Conference (... Read more

BY ARIEL HERNANDEZLast week’s Democratic primary election left the borough with both excitement and in shock, as two former members of the state Senate’s Independent Democratic Conference (I... Read more

By ARIEL HERNANDEZ To commemorate the 17th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the United Sikhs held a media breakfast briefing in Ri... Read more

By JON CRONIN During a community debate last week between Councilman Rory Lancman (D-Hillcrest) and Assistant Queens District Attorney Jim Quinn on the closure of Rikers Island, the audience... Read more

By NATHAN DUKE A Forest Hills-based union that represents hundreds of probation officers has filed a lawsuit against the city alleging pay discrimination. The United Probation Officers Assoc... Read more

By JON CRONIN Living in New York City, residents expect traffic and city leaders expect to hear complaints about commutes, construction noise and overdue projects. This week, the Queens Trib... Read more

By NATHAN DUKE A new development in Long Island City will include the preservation and restoration of a natural waterfront habitat, the site’s developer said. Real estate developer TF Corner... Read more

By JON CRONIN In early 2018, Gov. Andrew Cuomo directed the state’s Department of Health (DOH) to review the impacts of regulating recreational marijuana on health, the criminal justice syst... Read more

By JON CRONIN With Massachusetts having legalized recreational marijuana and New Jersey’s governor seeking to do the same, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tasked the state Department of Health (D... Read more

By ARIEL HERNANDEZ On Aug. 28, New York City launched a new smoking disclosure policy through its NYC Smoke-Free program, operated by nonprofit Public Health Solutions, as an effort to reduc... Read more

Last week, Forest Hills Stadium played host to Van Morrison and Willie Nelson, two of the most revered and enduring recording artists of the last half-century. The icons make for interesting... Read more

The following article is the first in a new recurring food review series in partnership with eattheworldnyc.com. The full review appeared in the September 13th print edition of The Queens Tr... Read more

The federal government recently ordered New York City and New York State to invest four billion of your taxpayer dollars to fix the broken and disgraced New York City Housing Authority’s (NY... Read more

By Jon CroninDuring a community debate last week between Councilman Rory Lancman (D-Hillcrest) and Assistant Queens District Attorney Jim Quinn on the closure of Rikers Island, the audience... Read more

By ARIEL HERNANDEZOn Aug. 28, Public Health Solutions — one of the largest public health nonprofits in New York City — launched a new smoking disclosure policy through its NYC Smoke-Free pro... Read more

By Jon CroninWith Massachusetts having legalized recreational marijuana and New Jersey’s governor seeking to do the same, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tasked the state Department of Health (DO... Read more

BY NATHAN DUKEMayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza kicked off the first day of the new school year on Wednesday at Ozone Park’s PS 377 during the first-ever day of 3-... Read more

BY JON CRONINMayor Bill de Blasio’s office gave the greenlight for the BQX streetcar this week, releasing a new report that detailed a slightly shorter route for the Brooklyn Queens waterfro... Read more

By JON CRONIN A flight from Dubai to John F. Kennedy International Airport was quarantined by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on Wednesday morning with reports of a number of the 521 p... Read more

By ARIEL HERNANDEZ A Rikers Island inmate is suing the city and two city Department of Correction (DOC) officers after they repeatedly raped and assaulted her in 2015. The Legal Aid Society—... Read more

BY NATHAN DUKE Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza kicked off the first day of the new school year on Wednesday at Ozone Park’s PS 377 during the first-ever day of 3... Read more

BY STAFFDemocrats make up roughly 65 percent of the registered voters in the borough of Queens. According to our exclusive poll, many of them are fired up to vote this election cycle. Turnou... Read more

BY MICHAEL GARETH JOHNSONAndrew Cuomo was literally born and raised in Queens, attending St. Gerard Majella School in Hollis and then Archbishop Molloy High School in Briarwood in the ’60s a... Read more

By Jon CroninWorld War II and celebrity photographer Tony Vaccaro has captured images of death, despair and ecstatic beauty across the globe in a career that has spanned 70 years.In his Long... Read more

BY ARIEL HERNANDEZ After a month-long fight by the city’s elected officials and transportation safety advocates following the expiration of the School Speed Camera program on July 26, Gov. A... Read more

BY JON CRONIN The embattled owners of College Point’s Spa Castle have pleaded guilty and were convicted of felony tax fraud, according to the state attorney general. Spa Castle corporate off... Read more

By JON CRONIN The city’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) issued a stop-work order at a former factory site in Glendale on Cooper Avenue that could become a homeless shelter. On... Read more

A 17-year-old boy has been arrested in a fatal weekend shooting at Astoria’s Ravenswood Houses, police said. Around 5:20 a.m. on Sunday, police responded to a 911 call of a person shot in fr... Read more

By Jon Cronin New York unions are seeing an increase in membership and commitment from members after the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision on Janus v. AFSCME (the American Federation of Sta... Read more